Teaching the Craft of Writing: Voice: Lessons, Strategies, Models, and Literature Connections That Help You Teach and Revisit This Important Craft Element All Year Long - Softcover

Schaefer, Lola M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0439443989 ISBN 13: 9780439443982

Publisher: Teaching Strategies, 2006

Synopsis

In this concise and thoughtful guide, expert teacher and veteran author Lola Schaefer offers classroom-tested lessons and practical strategies that help students identify voice in writing and learn how to include it in their own work. Students find their voices through quickwrites, author studies, guided revision practice, compare-and-contrast exercises, and more. Complete with fiction and nonfiction models, student samples, conference transcripts, and classroom vignettes, this is an essential resource for any writing teacher. For use with Grades 2-4.

About this title

About the Author

Lola M. Schaefer was a classroom teacher for 18 years, teaching kindergarten through seventh grade. She now serves as an educational consultant and works in elementary and middle schools across the United States demonstrating classroom writing lessons and working with teachers on craft mini-lessons, as well as revision and genre structures. She also provides staff development workshops and is an accomplished children's book author, with more than 220 books to her credit. Her Scholastic professional books include Teaching Narrative Writing, 10 Writing Lessons for the Overhead, and Writing Lessons for the Overhead for grades 1, 2-3, and 5 and Up. Recently Lola and her husband moved from Indiana to the mountains of north Georgia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Teaching Strategies
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0439443989
• ISBN 13: 9780439443982
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48